Events

April 2013
Special theme: Mobile Computing
Guest editors: Edgar Weippl (SBA Research, AARIT, Austria) and Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia, SpaRCIM)

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W3C at the Mobile World Congress 2013

by Marie-Claire Forgue

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was present at the Mobile World Congress 2013 25-28 February 2013 to demonstrate the impact of the Open Web Platform and HTML5-based Web apps, proposed as the best development solutions addressing reduction in costs and complexity. Nowadays, HTML5-based Web applications are enhanced with new capabilities such as responsive design, WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication), near field communication (NFC), Web payments, and full integration of video.

PROMISE Winter School 2013 on Bridging between Information Retrieval and Databases

by Nicola Ferro

The main mission of the PROMISE EU FP7 network of excellence is to advance the evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia and multilingual information access systems. Together with the ELIAS research network on information access system evaluation, funded by the European Science Foundation, PROMISE organized a winter school on “Bridging between Information Retrieval and Databases” as a week long event in Bressanone, Italy, from 4-8 February 2013.